Our seventh grade IT students are just about to begin a new international collaboration with students in the United States. They will be taking advantage of the exciting communication tools (like YackPack) that we are using with sixth grade, plus they will put to use all of their wiki skills which they learned on the [...]
Entries Tagged as '21st Century Communication'
Another international collaboration is born!
April 25th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: 21st Century Communication · IT7
Join the Pack
April 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Our sixth graders are about embark on yet another exciting adventure!
As part of their current collaborative project with a class in New Zealand, they are learning all about 21st Century Literacy skills – wikis, Skype, and now YackPack.
YackPack is basically an online telephone and answering machine. Students, teachers and parents in the Pack can either [...]
Tags: 21st Century Communication · IT6 · International Collaborators
What makes you happy?
March 27th, 2007 · No Comments
Our sixth grade students have just begun an exciting new project!
We are collaborating with a class in New Zealand to produce multimedia presentations about what makes us happy. We began today with a 20 minute Skype conference with our partner class in NZ.
Please come back to our wiki often to see what amazing new things [...]
Tags: 21st Century Communication · IT6 · exploratories
1001 Flat World Tales Begins!
March 12th, 2007 · No Comments
Our grade 7 English students are embarking on an exciting collaborative project today! They will be part of the 1001 Flat World Tales project initiated by Mr. Burrell at Korea International School. Our students will be writing myths and legends about Malaysia using a wiki to work in collaboration with students in Serbia and Canada [...]
Tags: 21st Century Communication · Class Wikis · integration
Making Connections
January 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Our eighth grade students have just started a fantastic new project in Mr. R’s English class. The will be working with students all around the world to discuss what life is like as a teenager in today’s society.
“The purpose of this project is to have teenagers from different locations around the globe exchange their thoughts [...]
Tags: 21st Century Communication · integration
21st Century Communication
December 1st, 2006 · No Comments
All of our middle school students now have their own blogs hosted by Learner Blogs. You can find links to all student blogs here on this blog (on the sidebar), or sorted by class on the individual teacher blogs (listed below). Feel free to read what they are writing and to participate in the conversation. [...]
